Calm down.
Everything is going to be okay.
The clerk at the grocery store said, “Happy holidays!”
That’s not persecution.
Just say, “Thanks! Same to you!”
The courthouse doesn’t have a nativity on the lawn.
Just put one up at your house.
(The traditional nativity isn’t historically accurate anyway.)
Why do you care how they decorate the courthouse anyway?
Back in October it was awash in witches and ghouls.
Remember?
Somehow, Christianity survived Halloween.
Surely your faith can withstand the absence of baby Jesus imagery in government buildings.
Besides, forcing secular institutions to observe religious traditions is a horrible idea.
All religions are not the same.
If we force the public to observe Christmas, then we’ll have to observe every stupid holiday the public dreams up.
Do you really want Earth Day to last a month?
I didn’t think so.
So stop being offended!
There are PLENTY of offended people out there.
The truth is:
Not everyone celebrates Christmas as the birth of Jesus.
So what?
You can still sing “Silent Night” and read the advent story from the Bible.
It isn’t a declaration of war when your neighbor abstains.
We don’t have to agree on the “reason for the season”.
Season’s Greetings are appropriate no matter your theology.
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You’re right that there’s no war on Christmas per se, but there is a wider war on Christ of which a lot of the anti-Christmas sentiment is just a symptom. I think many take the diminishing of Christ in Christmas with greater offense because they mistakenly thought that they could let the secular world run rampant in other areas of life, but that the secularists would then have enough respect towards believers to leave the “important” things alone, like Christmas and Easter, whereas, rabid secularists generally would like to see all evidence for Christ extinguished from every area of life.
And for folks who are upset about the crass commercialization of Christmas (or Hanukah or Kwanzaa or Festivus): this commercialization may well be the only reason we still have an official holiday.
It’s OK. I will continue to say “Merry Christmas”, and I am generally not offended by people who choose a different winter festival greeting.
I do get a tad annoyed with anyone who tries to tell *me* that *I* should *not* say “Merry Christmas” — it happens. But like Scrooge’s nephew, Fred, I need not let them dampen my Christmas spirit.
Or, as many secular Brits say, “Proper Crimbo”.
In the great holiday wars, I think Christians still hold the upper hand. We lost Halloween to the pagans, but I think that’s a fair trade for Easter and Christmas. We’ve pretty much got Easter on lock down. We can afford to lose some ground in Christmas. ^_^
You missed your calling as a broadcast journalist/sports analyst…
For those who love a good conspiracy theory: what if it’s NON-CHRISTIANS who are posing as Christians and making a big deal out of “Happy Holidays” to make Christians look petty and ignorant?
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amen and amen, John. Well said!
Exactly. And we should calm down about X-mas. It isn’t taking Christ out of Christmas. It never was. My wife did a whole thing on these silly conspiracy theories. Charles Dickens would be rolling over in his grave over some of this stuff. 🙂
This kind of stuff is just like the nonsensical idea that somehow we kicked God out of public schools. Really? Are we deists? I don’t think we have the power to kick God out of anything.
Happy Hannukah
MERRY CHRISTMAS! 😀
Which is actually why, as a family who don’t “celebrate Christmas” in the traditional sense, I always put “seasons greetings” on our Christmas cards when we sent them out.
Christmas is here again. True and true. We should not engage in any debate about the appropriateness about the day, symbols to display and what have you.
Whatever the case may be, like John said we are not fighting to rewrite our story as Christians.